Title:  Executive Accounts Receivable

General Responsibilities

• Support manager in managing day to day operating expenditures against operating budgets to ensure efficient usage of resources
• Implement credit policy, processes and internal controls to ensure governance over the credit control or collections function.
• Conduct new customers' financial background and reference checks to verify creditworthiness. Provide check results to facilitate decisions on credit limit assignments.
• Track the credit and collection history of existing customers. Analyze customers' payment performance and check for potential credit risks to mitigate potential payment defaults.
• Follow-up on payments due and check against assigned credit limit or credit policy. Highlight potential debt recovery issues and suggest solutions to recover debts.
• Coverage on Cashier's duty.
• Coordinate activities related to renegotiation of customer payment plans and reassignment of credit limits to ensure recoverability of debts.
• Implement continuous improvement initiatives to streamline existing credit control processes and improve efficiencies through a better utilization of automated systems.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders in monitoring collections (e.g. days sales outstanding, monthly collection targets, etc.) and resolving customer payment issues.
• Work closely with customers on collections and reconciliation of balances to ensure accurate and timely recovery of payments.

Functional Skills and Knowledge 

• Demonstrate good working knowledge and understanding of the business and industry.
• Demonstrate good working knowledge and application of local or international accounting standards, principles and practices, credit control experience is preferred.
• Proven hands-on experience in SAP accounting applications is an advantage.
• Demonstrate basic research and analytical skills
• Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Demonstrate fluency in local language and ideally in English, both written and spoken.

Education

Degree or professional qualification in Accounting/Finance or a related discipline.

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